ColdFusion Trends with Ben Forta

ColdFusion guru Ben Forta discusses the state of ColdFusion, CF adoption trends, and the future of the platform.

Fluent Navigation in JSF 2

Part 3 on JSF 2: Discover that getting around in a JSF 2 application is much simpler and requires less typing.

REST in practice for IT and Cloud management (part 1: Cloud APIs)

In this entry I compare four public Cloud APIs (AWS EC2, GoGrid, Rackspace and Sun Cloud) to see what practical benefits REST provides for resource management...

1 replies - 1238 views - 07/20/09 by vambenepe in News

Jeff Davis on Open Source SOA

DZone recently sat down with Jeff Davis, author of Manning's Open Source SOA to discuss the various factors that need to be considered when selecting an open...

3 replies - 2775 views - 07/15/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

When the Content Knows the Way - Content Based Routing in the SOA Platform

In my last post to this blog, I examined the ESB-jBPM integration in the SOA Platform. This time, we'll take a look at one aspect of the integration with JBoss...

0 replies - 2345 views - 07/13/09 by ldimaggi in News

Then What Does Make Someone an Architect?

So, allow me to expand on my prior blog entry (Architecture Frameworks Don’t Make Architects) and answer the question, what does make an architect?To help...

2 replies - 1752 views - 07/09/09 by jpmorgenthal in News

SOA and the XML Factor: Designing Service-Oriented Solutions with Extreme XML Compatibility

Interfaces of all kinds are subject to change. When we make a change to the operations or data offered by a service contract, this change will have an impact...

1 replies - 1392 views - 07/06/09 by rmurphyebay in Articles

CRUD is bad for REST

In one of my previous posts (Rest: good, bad and ugly), I made a passing comment, about how I think using CRUD in RESTful service  is a bad practice. I...

1 replies - 2013 views - 06/30/09 by arnonrgo in News

SOA Pattern of the Week (#7): Policy Centralization

Thomas Erl (SOASchool.com) and Herbjorn Wilhelmsen, (Objectware), bring you the seventh SOA Pattern of the Week, a series comprised of original content and...

1 replies - 969 views - 06/29/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Declarative Hyperlinking in RESTEasy

REST APIs must be hypertext driven. That requirement has quite a few implications on how one defines a RESTful interface which in turn has quite a few...

2 replies - 2462 views - 06/23/09 by Solomon in News

The Reason SOA Isn’t Delivering Sustainable Software

Wow, to read the positive reviews of SOA and what it’s doing for the IT industry, one would be likely to believe that there’s serious transformation...

1 replies - 1302 views - 06/22/09 by jpmorgenthal in News

Transactions are bad for REST

Yesterday I read an interesting paper called “RETRO: A RESTful Transaction Mode”. On the good side, I have to say, it is one of the best RESTful...

0 replies - 912 views - 06/17/09 by arnonrgo in News

What Drives SOA, Business or IT?

Much like the chicken and egg dilemma, in the SOA industry, there is often a debate over which should come first -- business needs or technology needs. That...

0 replies - 1185 views - 06/16/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

A Content Management Migration Framework for SCA

Migration tools are typically hampered by issues related to their complexity, slow processing and inability to meet custom migration requirements. In many...

1 replies - 943 views - 06/10/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Pragmatic Web Services With Apache CXF

Apache CXF [1] is an open-source Java-based framework whose goal is to help users develop standard-based, interoperable and robust web services.

2 replies - 7160 views - 06/08/09 by sergey_beryozkin in Articles

WCF defaults stifles loose coupling

This is another post (<Rant>) about WCF default behavior and how it can make the life of developers miserable ( you can also check out “WCF defaults...

1 replies - 866 views - 06/08/09 by arnonrgo in News

Building Reusable Services

The ability to reuse services is one of the principal benefits for adopting SOA in an enterprise. This statement will remain a promise for your development...

1 replies - 1339 views - 06/02/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles